New balls, please! Richard Williams (Will
Smith) with Serena (Demi
Singleton) and Venus (Saniyya Sidney).
AS FAR AS shoes go, those of two of the greatest tennis players to ever play the game are pretty big ones to fill. For teenage actors Demi Singleton and Saniyya Sidney, playing young versions of Serena and Venus Williams in the new biopic King Richard (which sees Will Smith star as the sisters’ father and coach, Richard) was a daunting test — as they explain here.